Samsung will provide the panels and will launch its own displays alongside

Samsung Electronics said that it has signed a long-term contract to provide Dell with 27-inch LCD panels, according to DigiTimes’reading of a Korean publication. Both companies will launch 27-inch panels in 2007, and the panels can also be used as televisions.

Samsung’s projected specifications for its upcoming 27-inch panel features a 1920 x 1200 resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m2 and a response time of 8 ms grey-to-grey. See the full specs here.

the 30" is known to scale down better than other screens, and the 2560x1600 resolution is so large, it can scale down to 1280x800 and retain a perfect 4 to 1 pixel ratio with no need for interpolation.

So in a sense, the 30" Dell is actually more versatile for gaming than a smaller screen in terms of producing an ideal high IQ.

However response time is isn't the greatest on the large screen, so there is still that trade off.